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...Ophelia (Samantha Whittaker), dressed in schoolgirl plaids and played as a sexually precocious teeny-bopper who needs Hamlet as much as he needs his own onanistic misery. He stretches in his chair like a Catalan death puppet, and often holds his head as if it would split from shame or rage. He might implode to suicide or explode into fury. He is, in other words, your basic melancholy teen, believing that no adult can comprehend the misery he is undergoing just by being alive. He can be found anywhere from Liverpool. England, to Littleton, Colorado...
...surface." Think of the film as a snow dome, its characters trapped under the glass of their emotion. There's Bianca's young brother, unable to empathize with others because of Asperger's syndrome. At the Siesta Inn, where Heidi takes refuge, the plucky proprietor harbors a deep shame. And there's Joe, whose intractable charm belies an existential crisis hinted at in his flirtations with an older gay landowner. When the dome breaks, things get messy...
...Olympics Committee has threatened to drop the sport, though it's safe for Beijing in 2008. U.S. players don't understand the concerns. "I can't imagine being good at something as a bad thing," says catcher Stacey Nuveman, who also homered on Monday. "If that's the case, shame on the world. In many sports there are teams that dominate. Look at table tennis. It's China, China, China...
...scandal that got him, the one that led to his sudden fall, was tangled up with homosexuality. For gay Americans, the Governor's words recalled the blistering shame and crushing fear that can accompany an adolescent's realization that he is gay. "I often felt ambivalent about myself," said McGreevey, who turned 47 this month. He compensated by being a good Catholic kid, a member of a pious high school group called the God Squad, according to the New York Times. He toiled fiercely--to transfer from Catholic University to Columbia; to become an assemblyman, mayor and state senator...
...water parks and great little shops that cater to youthful tastes. Phyllis H. Witcher Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. TIME captured one side of life in Las Vegas in vivid detail: lots of money, alcohol and sex. How about a follow-up on the other side? Alcoholism, venereal disease, unwanted pregnancies, shame, loneliness and heartbreak - that's Vegas, baby! Jean Tuomey Cleary Sewickley, Pennsylvania, U.S. Preventing the Next 9/11 The most important implication of the 9/11 commission's report [Aug. 2] is that the rules of warfare have changed. Conventional strategies of employing overwhelming military force will not work against networks like...